IBM DB2 for SAP: A No-Compromise Transactional and Analytic Database Platform

This white paper is written for SAP customers evaluating their infrastructure choices, discussing database technology evolution and options available. It is not easy to put forth a black-and-white choice as the SAP workloads straddle both real-time analytics and extreme transaction processing, and infrastructure choices can now be vast, given technology advancements around in-memory and faster processing speeds.
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The Business Case for Using Unstructured Text Analytics on IBM Power Systems for Critical Decision Making

This article has three purposes: First, to explain the difference in how structured and unstructured data are used in decision making. Second, give examples of how companies realized business value using unstructured data. Third, provide guidance for how companies can realize similar business value using unstructured data, and why picking the right servers and software can make a difference.
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Softwaredefinierter Speicher: Weniger Speicherkosten, bessere Service-Levels

Einer aktuellen Umfrage der IDC zufolge erwägen rund 35 % der Unternehmen eine Investition in softwaredefinierte Speicherlösungen (SDS) im Jahr 2014. Dies stimmt mit den Ergebnissen von IDC-Gesprächen mit IT-Entscheidern überein, welche ihre Speicherarchitekturen der nächsten Generation entsprechend den steigenden Geschäftsanforderungen entwickeln und dabei die ITKosten reduzieren möchten.
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Mit Virtualisierung verborgene Speicher-Schätze heben

Die Flut der digitalen Informationen ist für das menschliche Hirn schon lang nicht mehr fassbar. Auch die Speichersysteme der Unternehmensnetze gelangen aufgrund dieses rasanten Wachstums ständig an ihre Grenzen. Mit Virtualisierungslösungen, die versteckte Kapazitäten aufspüren und nutzen, lässt sich viel Geld sparen. SANsymphony von DataCore Software hilft, die Speichereinheiten im Rechenzentrum zu optimieren und Administrations-Prozesse zu vereinfachen. Darüber hinaus sorgt die Lösung für transparente Kostenstrukturen.
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Leveraging the Cloud for Your Big Data Workloads

This report explores how with the right partner, enterprises can ensure that their Big Data workloads perform consistently, securely, and cost effectively while delivering to a line-of-business colleagues’ need for on-demand, real-time analytics to make smart business decisions.
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5 Tips on How Your Hosting Choices Can Help You to Innovate

Making decisions about technology to support a creative environment requires original thinking. When you’re under pressure to deliver, a provider who offers an off-the-shelf answer to a difficult problem, or only partly manages your hosting when you need total support, is just not performing well enough.
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Preparing for the 2014 Holiday Shopping Season

With 93% of people doing at least some of their holiday-season shopping with online merchants, e-tailers of every kind need to get their websites in gear and ensure their customers feel confident shopping on their site. Whether it’s shopping online, instore pick-up, or even browsing and wish lists, customers are offering you an unprecedented amount of data and sales this season. But fail to keep your customers safe with good website security, and all you’ll get is a lump of coal in your stocking.
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10 Common Problems APM Helps You

Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of the benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM.
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Integrate Big Data into Business Processes and Enterprise Systems

In the paper, “Integrate Big Data into Your Business Processes and Enterprise Systems” you’ll learn how to drive maximum value with an enterprise approach to Big Data. Topics discussed include:

• How to ensure that your Big Data projects will drive clearly defined business value

• The operational challenges each Big Data initiative must address

• The importance of using an enterprise approach for Hadoop batch processing

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Workload Change: The 70 Percent of Your Business DevOps Forgot

Organizations that have successfully integrated workload automation (WLA) into their software development lifecycle have seen substantial benefits. So why is WLA, also referred to as job scheduling or batching processing, largely missing from the DevOps discussion? Adding WLA early in the development process ensures that the benefits of DevOps accrue for all applications, including your batch services. This paper explores the benefits in greater detail and explores possible ways to remedy the situation.
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